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ARMY INTEL AT HEART OF DISASTER --
The U.S. Army Intelligence Service and the CIA have been placed at the center of
a scandal that has severely damaged the standing of the United States in the
eyes of Iraqis and the world. Photos and a Pentagon report have provided
evidence of the degradation and torture of prisoners held by the Army in Iraq.
The report and statements by a reserve general have directly implicated Army
intelligence in these abuses. Photos of British troops allegedly abusing an
Iraqi suspected thief have brought similar woe to Britain.

President Bush and
Prime Minister Blair, as well as top generals in the armies of both countries,
have expressed their revulsion at the abuses. On Sunday,
CJCS Gen. Richard Myers said there was no evidence of systematic abuse
and the actions of just a handful have unfairly tainted all American forces.

A member of the
Iraqi Governing Council, Ghazi MashalAjil al-Yawar, appeared
to speak for most Iraqis when he said the perpetrators must be punished as war
criminals because the dignity of an Iraqi citizen is no less than the dignity of
an American. Al-Yawar is a close relative of
ShaykhMohsenAdil al-Yawar, head of
the powerful Shamar tribe which comprises both Sunni
and Shii Arabs.

Newspapers across
the Muslim world have been running the photographs of U.S. soldiers humiliating
hooded, naked detainees. Newspapers in Iraq did not carry the photos but Iraqis
could see them on the Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera
TV networks. Beyond the Arab world, Islamists in Southeast Asia's two largest
Muslim countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, said the abuses showed Western hatred
of Muslims and demanded that the coalition leave Iraq immediately

The disaster in
public diplomacy began on Wednesday when the CBS program, "60 Minutes,"
broadcast photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu
Ghraib prison near Baghdad, a site made notorious
under the regime of Saddam Husayn. Staff Sgt. Ivan
L. Frederick II, an Army reservist who is a prison guard in civilian life, told
"60
Minutes": "I kept asking my chain of command for certain things ... like rules
and regulations. And it just wasn't happening...Military intelligence has
encouraged and told us, "great job." We help getting them to talk with the way
we handle them...We've had a very high rate with our style of getting them to
break. They usually ended up breaking within hours."

In perhaps the
most appalling of the photographs, a woman private is shown with a cigarette
dangling from her mouth and giving a thumbs-up sign while pointing at the
genitals of a naked and hooded young Iraqi who has been ordered to masturbate.
In another, she grins, posed behind a pyramid of naked Iraqis.

The pictures from
Abu Ghraib came from an outraged military policeman,
Specialist Joseph M. Darby, who was given a CD containing pictures of the naked
and abused Iraqis by one of the six soldiers now facing criminal prosecutions.
Darby sent in an anonymous complaint and attached the CD and later gave evidence
against his companions.

On Saturday three
more things happened. A London newspaper, The Mirror, published pictures of a
hooded Iraqi, allegedly a thief, stripped to his underpants and wearing a
T-shirt with an Iraqi flag on it. In one photograph a soldier urinates on his
head. In another a kick is aimed at his head, while in a third an assault rifle
is jabbed at his genitals. The photos were supplied, according to the Mirror,
by two soldiers identified only as A and B who said an officer told them to get
rid of the Iraqi who was thrown, severely beaten, from a moving truck. Sunday,
the British press reported that the military had cast doubts on the authenticity
of the photos, pointing out that weapons and other
equipment seen in them, among other questionable details, had not been supplied
to the British forces in Iraq.

In two other
events Saturday, U.S. Army intelligence was named. One was a statement by Brig.
Gen. Janis Karpinski, suspended as commander of the
800th Military Police Brigade at Abu Ghraib. She
told the New York Times that while the reservists involved in the abuses were
bad people who deserved punishment, she suspected that they were acting with the
encouragement, if not at the direction, of military intelligence units that ran
the special cellblock used for interrogation. CIA operatives, she said, often
joined in the interrogations at the prison, although she said she did not know
if they had unrestricted access to the cellblock. A special high-security
cellblock at Abu Ghraib had been under the direct
control of Army intelligence officers, not the reservists under her command, she
said. Karpinski said she was speaking out because
she believed that military commanders were trying to shift the blame exclusively
to her and other reservists and away from intelligence officers still at work in
Iraq.

Also on Saturday,
the New Yorker magazine released an article by the investigative reporter,
Seymour Hersh,
that appears in its New Yorker issue dated 10 May.
Hersh draws on a still classified Army report by Mrj.
Gen. Antonio M. Taguba that charged that reservist
military police at Abu Ghraib were urged by Army
officers and C.I.A. agents to impose physical and
mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses. Iraqi detainees, the
report says, were subjected to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses."
According to the New Yorker, the Army report offered accounts of incidents from
October to December 2003 that included the sexual assault of an Iraqi detainee
with a chemical light stick or broomstick.

The
Taguba report related that witnesses told Army
investigators that prisoners were beaten and threatened with rape, electrocution
and dog attacks. Much of the abuse was sexual, with prisoners often kept naked
and forced to perform simulated and real sex acts, witnesses testified. The
report found that two intelligence officers and two civilian contractors were
responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

After allegations
of abuses began to circulate, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior American
commander in Iraq, ordered inquiries in January and a review of policies and
procedures at all of the prisons controlled by occupation forces in Iraq. Six
soldiers face criminal prosecution on charges of conspiracy, dereliction of
duty, cruelty toward prisoners, maltreatment, assault, and indecent acts. A
seventh suspect, Hersh reports, has been reassigned
to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after becoming pregnant.

On Sanchez's
orders, six officers and noncommissioned officers have received the most severe
level of administrative reprimand in the U.S. military, an anonymous senior
military told AP on Monday. A seventh officer was given a more lenient
admonishment. The reprimands could spell the end of their careers. AP also the
official saying U.S. forces have been given the unenviable task of taking up the
abuses with Iraqis. "We've made it very clear to commanders and all the way down
to the lowest soldier, 'You've got to get out there and explain what happened
here,'" the official said. (DKR)

SADDAM'S INTEL OFFICERS LEADING INSURGENCY --
Following plans laid down before the invasion of Iraq, officers of Saddam
Husayn'sMukhabarat (intelligence service) are leading
guerrilla insurgency in Iraq, according to un-named DoD
officials, citing a Pentagon report.

Both the
New York Times and the Associated Press reported officials as saying the
Iraqi intelligence officers come from the Mukhabarat's
Directorate of Special Operations and Antiterrorism, known as M-14. Officials
told AP they think members of the organization are working independently and
probably in little communication with one another. The officials cited a recent
DIA report. The Pentagon report was said to include
findings based on interrogations with high-level M-14 officers and documents
discovered and translated by the Iraq Survey Group. Similarities in certain bomb
designs found around Iraq also indicated M-14 was involved. M-14 was also
believed to be active in Faluja, where an estimated
1,500 to 2,000 insurgents are believed to have gathered, and
Ramadi, another town in the Sunni Triangle that has
been seen of repeated anti-American attacks.

Military officials
said the insurgents used Soviet-style defense-in-depth military tactics, instead
of the hit-and-run ambushes favored by Islamic mujahedin
who fought in Afghanistan. That suggested leadership by members of Saddam's
Soviet-style military, instead of foreigners, officials said. That does not
exclude the presence also among the insurgents of Iraqi Islamist militants,
foreign jihadis, Ba'ath
party officials and common criminals.

The nature and
extent of the M-14 officers' connection to other groups in was unclear, but
officials said they seemed to specialize in training, funding and planning
operations for others to carry out. The seven-page report, titled "Special
Analysis," was written under DIA guidance by the
Joint Intelligence Task Force, which includes officers and analysts from across
the intelligence community. It is not known whether it represents a fully formed
consensus or whether there might be dissenting assessments.

As coalition
forces moved on Baghdad, the M-14 put into place "The Challenge Project,"
designed with little central control, so community cells could continue to
attack American forces and allies even if Saddam fell and local commanders were
captured or killed. This called for intelligence officers scattered around Iraq
to lead a guerrilla insurgency and plan bombings and other attacks, the report
states. One such attack last April, which killed three Americans, was a suicide
bombing that appears to have been carried out by a pregnant woman who was an
M-14 colonel.

Policy makers told the Times
the report underscores concerns that a pervasive fear of Saddam continues to
deter millions of Iraqis from supporting the occupation. The pacification of
Iraq cannot succeed without the consent and participation of a larger number of
Iraqis, according to officials on Capitol Hill and within the administration.
(DKR)

STATE DEPARTMENT'S
INTEL ELITE --
CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA: any regular reader of the news is likely
to know what organizations these initials stand for. It's
a safe bet that far fewer people know what INR
represents. WIN readers, at least, may be expected to know that
INR are the initials by which the State
department's
own intel agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, is known.

`Writing in the
Sunday Washington Post, columnist David Ignatius praises the
INR, saying that many regard it as having the best
track record in the government in assessing intelligence issues for
policymakers. Ignatius, who is not unfamiliar with intelligence matters, points
out that the INR was the only agency consistently
skeptical about Iraq having chemical or biological weapons.

While the CIA
Directorate of Intelligence has more than 1,500 members and the
DIA about 3,000, the INR
has a mere 305 analysts. This small number relative to the big agencies,
Ignatius suggests, argues against the view being voiced around Washington that
"in the spy world, bigger is better: more people, broader responsibility,
greater interagency coordination." The success of the INR,
he argues, is that small is sometimes beautiful. "Because it is little,
INR tries to maintain an elite reputation. And
because it is intimately connected with State Department policymakers, it never
loses sight of what the consumers of intelligence actually want: sound
judgment."

The average
INR analyst has 11 years of experience in his area
of expertise, four times as long as the CIA average, according to a State
Department official, and many INR veterans have
several decades of experience in their areas of specialization. Because the
bureau is so small, each analyst has broad responsibility; one person covers all
the German-speaking countries while another has responsibility for all the
Scandinavian countries.

The reason
INR has been so effective, Ignatius reports State
Department officials as saying, is that it has maintained a culture that
supports dissent -- and demands expertise. As a result, INR
provided more accurate bomb damage assessments during the Vietnam War than did
the Pentagon; it warned in the late 1970s that if the Carter administration
allowed the deposed shah of Iran to enter the United States for medical
treatment, there would be trouble in Tehran (in the end the U.S. Embassy was
seized). In the Balkans, the bureau correctly cautioned that a bombing campaign
would not force Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to leave Kosovo quickly. A
year ago INR disputed assertions that Iraq, with
Saddam Husayn removed, would be the beginning of a
pro-democracy toppling of dominoes in the Arab world. It warned that Turkey
would feel threatened enough by the prospect of Kurdish autonomy that it might
not allow U.S. troops to transit its borders into Iraq.

A State Department
official remembers his early years in the bureau, when reports would be sent
back to him full of corrections and notations such as, "Start over" or "You
missed it." When that kind of intolerance for mediocrity is shared throughout
the intelligence community, Ignatius concludes, "we'll
know that reform has really begun."
(DKR)

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHIFTS FROM CRIME TO TERRORISM --
Secret surveillance warrants issued in federal terrorism and espionage cases
last year exceeded the total number of wiretaps approved in criminal cases
nationwide, the
Washington Post reports. Statistics released 30 April by the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts provide further evidence of a shift in the Justice
Department and FBI from a focus on common criminals to suspected terrorists and
their associates.

In 2003, federal
and state courts authorized wiretaps and other electronic surveillance in 1,442
criminal cases while the FBI says the number of warrants filed last year with
the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington rose to over
1,700. The volume of wiretaps has grown so rapidly over the past two years that
the DoJ has fallen behind in processing
applications, resulting in serious bottlenecks, according to a recent report by
the 9/11 commission. Officials stressed that in urgent cases, Attorney General
John Ashcroft may seek emergency authorization for warrants issued under the
Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Intelligence
warrants can include physical searches, but the Post said current and former
government officials familiar say that nearly all involve some form of
electronic surveillance. Monitoring allowed under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act can be more wide-ranging, last longer, has fewer restrictions
and may be approved even if law officers do not meet the standards of probable
cause required in criminal cases.

The House
Judiciary Committee is expected to take up legislation next week that would
expand the government's power to conduct surveillance.

The Patriot Act
and a landmark 2002 decision by a secret appeals court substantially broadened
the government's use of electronic surveillance under FISA.
The legislation allowed the FBI to seek such warrants not just in cases in which
the primary objective is intelligence gathering, but when criminal prosecution
is the primary goal. The number of FISA applications
has mushroomed as a result. Timothy Edgar, a lawyer at the American Civil
Liberties Union, said the increase in secret surveillance warrants shows that
"the Bush administration is using spy-hunting tools to sidestep the basic
protections that exist in criminal cases." (DKR)

NSA, DHS IN JOINT EFFORT TO PROMOTE
CYBERSECURITY --NSA and the Homeland Security department have formed
National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education to
promote educational activities that strengthen the United States' computer
infrastructure.
Source. The new centers stem from
NSA's Centers of Academic Excellence in Information
Assurance Education Program, which started in 1998 and recognizes 50
universities in 26 states.

NSA
and DHS officials, announcing the centers on 22 April, said that graduates
steeped in information assurance education were taking
cybersecurity to the very edges of the National Information
Infrastructure and the Global Information Grid. The National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace, launched by the Bush administration in 2002, directs the government
to foster training and education programs that support computer security needs
and responsibilities, and improve existing information assurance programs. (Newsbits,
DKR)

CANADA TO SPEND MILLIONS ON CYBERSECURITY,
INTELLIGENCE --
Canada is to spend 690 million Canadian dollars (U.S.$581
million) on repelling cyberattacks, gathering
intelligence and other security measures. The funds will be used to implement a
national security policy set out by Public Safety Minister Anne
McLellan in Ottawa on 27 April.
CNEWS. Funds will also be spent on
threat assessment, more effective response to health emergencies, and improved
marine security. McLellan said the government would
also press ahead with efforts to include biometric features in passports and
other identity documents, broaden North American border security and help bring
stability to struggling nations. The overall policy is designed to protect
Canadians, ensure Canada is not a base for terrorist operations and contribute
to international security.

The security
policy establishes three new panels: a federal-provincial forum on emergencies,
a national security advisory council, and a cross-cultural roundtable aimed at
engaging Canada's various ethnic and religious communities on security matters.
The announcement came just days before Prime Minister Paul Martin and President
George Bush held talks in Washington last weekend. Canada is perceived in some
U.S. quarters as failing to pull its weight in the fight against terrorism.
Martin said the plan would be discussed during his visit. (Newsbits,
DKR)

DoD is considering
including contactless chips and biometric data in
its next-generation Common Access Cards. There are currently more than 5 million
cards in use making the CAC project by far the
government's
largest smart-card program. It too was a finalist for the implementation award.
But the award, presented on 27 April, went to the government of Hong Kong, which
has issued smart identification cards to 7 million residents.

Smart cards have
been slow to take off in this country. Up to now they have resembled plastic
credit cards, but the development of contactless
technology now allows the chips that make the cards smart to be embedded in
almost any kind of device, from a key fob to a cell phone.

American Express
Co. is testing a system in New York, Phoenix and Singapore that uses a chip in a
key chain that piggybacks on merchants'
existing point-of-sale technology. A contactless
chip reader added to the traditional POS terminal converts the data to a
magnetic-stripe format. ExpressPay transactions are
processed like credit card purchases, using the same back-end systems. Because
there is no card to swipe and no signature required,
contactless transactions are quicker than either credit card or cash
purchases. (Newsbits, DKR)

REPORTING THE TREES AND MISSING THE FOREST? --
Philip Seib, Beyond the Front Line: How
the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War, (Palgrave,
208 pp., $29.95). Using the war in Iraq, Seib takes
a close look at the relationship between news media and warfare.
Seib takes up the rise of Arab television stations,
particularly Al-Jazeera, that command vast publics,
especially in the Arab world and that can be downright hostile to the Western
presentation of events. He also deals with the growing importance of the
Internet as a source of news and commentary and the portable satellite
technology that allows direct, real-time reporting.

Journalists
covering the war in Iraq came under increased pressure to sacrifice accuracy and
depth for speed given the insatiable demands of television.
Seib finds that American coverage of the war reflected the tension
between the role of journalists in bolstering support for the troops and
maintaining am independent, critical posture. Seib,
who is a professor of journalism, brings to his discussion of these problems, a
sharp analysis of embedding journalists, something he argues yields vivid but
limited close-ups that risk missing the forest for the trees.
Seib fears that the media's
growing ability to capture the action is accompanied by a declining practice of
in-depth reporting. He may be right as the shadow of "infotainment" appears to
grow steadily larger.

FASCISM THEN AND NOW --
Robert O. Paxton, The
Anatomy of Fascism, (Knopf, 321 pp., $26). President Bush has
identified Islamist revolutionaries as the heirs to fascism. "They have the same
will to power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global
ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists,
the terrorists cannot be appeased: they must be defeated.''

Bush has got it
right. Islamists seek the recreation of a long-gone, mythical past, an epigone
of the totalitarian ideologies that arose in Europe in the last century. In this
its nature is reminiscent of the Nazis combination of modern methods of
acquiring and keeping power and their cult of a romanticized past; for example,
the SS casting itself as a recreation of the medieval Teutonic Order.
Ladan and RoyaBoroumand, Iranian sisters who are both historians,
note that, "The
militant Islamists'aestheticization of death, glorification of armed
force, worship of martyrdom, and faith in the propaganda of the deed'
are all attributes of the Western far Right and some of the far Left in the last
century."

Given the
shortness of historical memory in America, Robert O. Paxton, a professor
emeritus at Columbia University, has rendered us a service, and rendered it
well, in providing a thorough history and analysis of the movement (or
movements, if you prefer) that the Michel Aflaq drew
on in dreaming up the Ba'ath socialist Party that
produced the Hafiz regime in Syria and Saddam Husayn
in Iraq.

Paxton recounts
how the fascist parties were born, take root, come to power, govern and are
destroyed. He deals mainly with Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, but also
with the lesser specimens of the Fascist disease as manifested in Britain,
France, Hungary, Portugal, Spain and elsewhere. He is persuasive in arguing that
political instability after the upheaval of World War I and the seizure of power
by the expansionist-minded Bosheviks in Russia
frightened the conservative European elites invited the fascists into
government. Instead of declaring marshal law, King VittorioEmmanuele III responded to Mussolini's March on Rome
(in which Il Duce traveled by train to the capital) by making his prime
minister. Hitler became German chancellor because the
aristrocratic Franz von Papen, who thought he
could control the Austrian upstart, contrived for him to do. It should be noted
that the socially and religiously conservative bazaaris,
the old commercial elite in Iran, provided vital support for the 1979 Islamic
Revolution because they feared being overtaken by the corporate businesses
favored by the modernizing Shah.

DAMN YANKEES! --
John Gibson, Hating
America:The New World
Sport, (ReganBooks, 304pp., $25.95).
Fox News Channel's
John Gibson goes after what he sees as the many Arabs who have a mindless hatred
of the United States, Germans who take an addictive pleasure in
anti-Americanism, Brits who hate themselves for not hating Americans enough and
French who live in an anti-American nation. His main point is that other
countries did not understand American feelings after 9/11 and so did not support
the invasion of Iraq. Gibson reduces differences over matters of high policy to
intense emotional dislike, springing from fear and envy or to irrational tribal
antagonisms that are displayed in sports activities. All in all, a superficial,
ranting attempt to deal with real and serious problems. For an enlightening
study of European attitudes towards to the United States, Robert
Kagan's
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order may be
recommended; for Arab attitudes, Bernard Lewis'
What went wrong? (DKR)

QUERIES

WRITER SEEKS HELP ON FALL OF SAIGON --
Mike McLaughlin is a Boston-area writer/historian preparing a feature article
for American Heritage magazine about the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon,
and the evacuation of U.S. and Vietnamese personnel from the Defense
Attache Office compound and the U.S. Embassy, from
mid-March until April 29-30, 1975. "I'm specifically interested in hearing from
staffers who: (1) worked with Vietnamese nationals providing
intel for the U.S.; (2) worked
with Air America in any capacity (to arrange the evacuation of these people,
etc); and/or; (3) took responsibility for effecting the safe transfer out of
country of Vietnamese families whose lives were at risk in the face of the
imminent Communist take-over. Anyone who worked with the CIA,
USIS, USAID
or in any other capacity in Saigon, 1975 is welcome to reply. At this time, I
have a long list of contacts who effected the military side of the evacuation
(Marines and sailors), but none who covered the civilian end. If you can help,
please contact me at the address, Mike McLaughlin,
mikemac54@excite.com 54 Cutler Street #2; Winthrop, MA 02152; (617)
539-0302"

Issues

THE EDITOR: TORTURE, AN UGLY, PERENNIAL QUESTION --
In 2001, an 83-year old retired French army officer, Gen. Paul
Aussaresses, created a scandal by publishing a book*
in which he admitted to having tortured people during the Algerian war of
independence that ended in 1962. Worse, he defended the practice and said he had
no qualms about it. Worse yet, he said the French Government was regularly
informed about, and tolerated, the use of torture, summary executions and forced
displacements of people.

"It's efficient,
torture," Aussaresses told the daily Le Monde, "The
majority of people crack and talk...Did this pose problems
of conscience? I have to say, no. I was used to those things." The French
public was swept by shock and revulsion. President Jacques Chirac said he was
horrified and called for disciplinary action against the general.

Had
Ausssaresses been a servant of Nazi Germany, Soviet
Russia, or any number of Third World tyrannies, the revulsion would have been
much the same, but the shock would have been less. The world has a double
standard by which it judges such abuses and the countries of the West are held
to a higher standard than others. U.S. Army commanders in Iraq talk about the
Iraqi's
'man
on the moon'
complaint when there are delays in the delivery of American goods and services.
The Iraqis complain that if the United States can put a man on the moon, why can't
it provide electricity? Iraqis and others in the Middle East and throughout the
Muslim world are now asking an analogous moral question: If the United States
can respect human rights at home and advocate them abroad, why can't
it respect them in Iraq?

There is an honest
answer, the answer Aussaresses gave: Torture works.
But it is unacceptable in a society committed to respect for human dignity, a
value our society honors. However, there are dark corners in all societies, even
the most liberal, humane Western societies respectful of the laws under which
they live. The use of torture, physical and psychological, is one of those
corners and exists because there is a tragic conflict between the principles by
which we wish to live together, "with
liberty and justice for all,"
and the duty and conscience of those who bear a responsibility for protecting
the lives of others. Extracting information from the enemy is vital to the
fulfillment of that responsibility and torture and degradation can deliver it.

The price that has
to be paid is terrible, for the abused person, the society in turn abused by
what is done to him, and for the torturer who risks not the least the calloused
conscience displayed by Aussaresses. Such is the
nature of conflict between opposing human forces that there have always been and
probably always will be people willing to pay that price. That is why torture is
an ugly and perennial question, and a tragedy in the fullest meaning of the
word.

Born
KanatjanAlibekov in
Kazakhstan, Ken Alibek developed biological weapons
for the former Soviet Union for nearly two decades. He was considered an expert
in turning anthrax and a dozen other killer germs into invisible missiles. In
1992, he defected to America, changed his name, and became a U.S. citizen.
Today, Alibek is a Distinguished Professor of
Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Executive Director for Education at the
National Center for Biodefense at George Mason
University in Virginia. Alibek, author of
"Biohazard" (1999), has discussed with audiences the horrors of biological
weapons; the danger of smallpox falling into the hands of terrorists; Iraqi
efforts to develop biological weapons; and the threat of a North Korean
biological weapons program.

19 MAY -- INSIDE THE MIND OF A TERRORIST AT THE SPY MUSEUM --
Dr. Jerrold M. Post is a specialist in the psyche of terrorists. He has studied
and tested terrorists across the globe and explored the role of extremism,
fundamentalism and culture in the creation of the modern day terrorist. Post,
founding director of the CIA Center for the Analysis of Personality and
Political Behavior, will discuss the mind of the terrorist and answer questions
from the audience at the International Spy Museum, 800 F Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C. on 19 May at 7 p.m. Admission is $20; for members of The Spy
Ring and the OSS Society, $16. Space is limited and
advance registration is required. To register, visit
www.spymuseum.org or call Ticketmaster at 202-
432-SEAT, 410-481-SEAT, or 703-573-SEAT; or 202.393.7798 (202.EYE.SPY.U)

23 May -- KIDSPY SCHOOL: SPY GADGETRY
WORKSHOP AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM --
800 F Street N.W., Washington, D.C. on Sunday, 23 May from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.
From cameras that shoot through a button-hole to a secret listening device in
the heel of a shoe --spies have always used the slickest tools in town. Here's
the chance for KidSpies to invent their own way-cool
spy gadgetry for a top secret agent on a mission! At our Invention Lab, ideas
are encouraged, prototypes made, and concepts tested. Will your spy-idea work
"in
the field?"
You could be the "Q"
of the future! Ages 11-15; No Grown Ups Allowed! Tickets: $25 per
KidSpy Members of The Spy Ring (Join Today!): $22
per person. Space is limited –
advance registration required! To register, visit spymuseum.org or call
Ticketmaster at 202- 432-SEAT, 410-481-SEAT, or
703-573-SEAT; or 202.393.7798 (202.EYE.SPY.U)

29 MAY - THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES SOCIETY --
forerunner to CIA -- will holds its 62nd anniversary reunion dinner on May 29,
2004 at the luxurious Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington, DC. Several hundred OSS veterans, their
families, and distinguished guests are expected to attend the banquet -- part of
a weekend celebration -- that will observe the founding of
OSS in June 1942. During the weekend, guests will also attend the
dedication of the National World War II Memorial. AFIO members are invited to
attend the "business-attire-or-better" banquet and celebration at an all
inclusive cost of $150/person. Contact
OSS Society President Charles Pinck at
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Obituary

Thomas Corbally --
who has died aged 83, played a key role in the Profumo-Keeler
affair that rocked the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in
1963 and paved the way for the electoral defeat of the Tory government in the
following elections.

John
Profumo, Secretary of State for War, saw his
promising political career ended when it came out that he had lied to the House
of Commons by denyng having an affair with a party
girl, Christine Keeler. Stephen Ward, a society osteopath and artist, committed
suicide after being exposed as the man who introduced Keeler to both
Profumo and YevgenyIvanov, the Soviet naval attaché and prosecuted for
living on immoral earnings.

Corbally, born in Newark, New Jersey, was handsome
and charming. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force a few months before Pearl
Harbor, then served in the U.S. Army. In post-war
Germany, he checked on people traveling in and out of the U.S. occupation zone,
the beginning of an aura he created of being part of the intelligence world that
later made some people believe he worked free-lance for the CIA.

After working in
advertising in New York and being married for a few months in 1956 to the tennis
star Gussie Moran, he moved to London where he lived in fashionable Mayfair. He
was reported to organize orgies, a world of sexual libertinage in which Ward
also participated. The two became friends and Ward introduced Keeler and her
friend, Mandy Rice-Davies, both of whom attended parties given by
Corbally.

Macmillan heard
rumors about Profumo and Keeler and asked the
American ambassador, David Bruce, to make discreet inquiries about
Profumo and Keeler. Bruce turned to
Corbally who arranged a luncheon with Bruce's
secretary, Alfred Wills, and Ward, who talked freely.
Corbally and Wells reported to Bruce about Ward introducing Keeler to
both Profumo and Ivanov
and Bruce passed the report on to Macmillan.

In March 1963,
Profumo told the Commons there was no impropriety in
his acquaintance with Keeler. Three months later Profumo
was shown to have lied and resigned. It was the end of a career that many
thought would see Profumo become prime minister.

Corbally's role in the affair emerged in 1986 when
the FBI released documents on its own Profumo
investigation. Starting in 1980, Corbally worked for
20 years as a consultant for Kroll Associates, specialists in corporate
investigations. He continued to live a jet-set life style and frequent high
social circles.

In 1999 he was
involved with Martin Frankel, a fugitive fund manager who has been convicted of
stealing $200 million from insurance companies. Corbally
maintained that he had been duped, but was himself under investigation at the
time of his death on 15 April. He is survived by his wife Renée, whom he married
in 1982. (Cameron L.C., Daily Telegraph 28 April, DKR)

Correction

LITHUANIAN, NOT LATVIAN --
In WIN #13-04 dtd 26 April 2004, RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT
EXPELLED FOR EXCESSIVE INTEREST IN NATO, the paragraph beginning. "Not
all Latvians..."
should read, "Not
all Balts are all that anti-Russian. Earlier in
April, the Lithuanian parliament..."

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